Archive for October, 2016
All-For-One or One-For-All
I found that these articles that we read for today were interesting. Though we had two different sides to the story, I don’t know if I can fully partake and agree with one individual. In my opinion, fighting over academics over social media is a bit… childish and immature. I do agree with the anonymous […]
10/31 Blog Prompt
The first piece we read for today, published by anonymous, creates an oppositional relationship between “serious academics” and “professional Instagrammers” which calls to mind some of the issues of elitism we’ve been discussing in class. However, the subtitle raises the more complex idea that academics are now expected to engage with social media (with no […]
McPherson: Race and DH
As I began the article, I anticipated that McPherson would address issues such as “debates about access to media – that is the digital divide” (McPherson 143). In some ways, I feel as though McPherson is reading too closely into technology as means of a division of race. McPherson presents the question “might we argue […]
McPherson Response
As several others have mentioned within our discussion on Monday, I was not expecting the direction McPherson went based on her title as well as struggling to maintain a steady pace throughout her essay. I found myself losing my place and finding it very difficult to read the essay all the way through in one […]
Response to McPherson
McPherson, in her essay “Why Are the Digital Humanities So White”, took a different approach to comparing race and the DH than I expected. When I read the title, I expected her talk about just who was responsible in establishing and developing DH as a movement and study, but what I came to find was, […]
Racist UNIX?
McPherson argued, “…given that competing modes of computation were still quite viable until the 1960s” (151). Misses the point. Perhaps they were, but the point is the idea of modularity and simplicity was clearly superior to what came before it. It’s easy to forget that computers in this time were severely resource constrained. RAM was […]
From Caterpillars to Mothmen: McPherson and Racism in the DH
McPherson’s entire premise for this essay is essentially to make a pretty strong case that unless the humanities embraces both the technological and old school methodologies for constructing and conducting inquiry and research, the outlook is grim much like the outcome of the upcoming election. Although she spends a fair amount of time discussing race […]
McPherson and the White DH
I envision initiatives to get minorities involved with humanities computing. If not involved, then at least interested, for chance that might change the pressure on what scholarship is completed. This would need to happen early on in an educational career, undergraduate at the latest. I don’t write the grants; I can’t imagine exactly what this […]
McPherson Response
McPherson suggests a number of solutions, looking at different ways of starting to bridge the gap. She argues, “First we must better understand the machines and networks that continue to powerfully shape our lives in ways that we are often ill equipped to deal with as media and humanities scholars” (152). This seems to be an […]
Responding to McPherson
To start, I did not think McPherson’s essay was all that bad. I had trouble understanding her sections about coding just like anyone else, but I do not think the point was for the reader to fully understand it all; rather, her goal was to give us some background knowledge on UNIX and then show […]
